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paxil withdrawal
why is withdrawal from paxil so intense.i'm on 20mg. a day, i,ve tried cutting back to 10mg was on that for a month, then i tried to take 10mg every other day,the second day istarted having withdrawals,tremers,heart racing,weak,ihave never felt so bad in my life.so i always goback to taking the 20mg aday.
Well, I have been on Paxil for nearly 10 years consistently and and on and off for about 4 years prior to that. At the time I started taking it, I was in a very difficult place in my life. I started out with 10 mgs and have been on 40 mg for the past several years.
I have felt that I have come to a better place in my life and have wanted to remove myself from relying on medications to solve my problems. Unfortunately, I am well aware of the terrible withdrawl symptoms that are associated with Paxil (Jittery vision, sweat, nightmares, racing heart, nasuea, irritability, increased anxiety...).
For the past three months my physician has been reducing my dosage slowly. 40-30 for 2 months, 30-20 for 2 months and next with be 20-10 mg.
Dropping from 40 to 30 mg was not a difficult as I initially anticipated. I only experienced a couple of days of increased anxiety, sweats, jittery vision, nightmares, body aches, etc. Within three weeks I felt much better and was ready to move on.
One and a half months ago I dropped from 30-20 mg and unfortunately to symptoms seem to have amped up and continued for a longer period of time. Especially feelings of a racing heart, nightmares, lethargy, increased moments of anxiety, and insomnia.
These most recent experiences have made me consider upping my dose back to 30 mg. to simply ease the withdrawl symptoms. I am hoping that the symptoms will ease and I can continue to reduce my dosage.
Has anyone ever gone through a similar experience? I would love to hear from you if you have.
I have felt that I have come to a better place in my life and have wanted to remove myself from relying on medications to solve my problems. Unfortunately, I am well aware of the terrible withdrawl symptoms that are associated with Paxil (Jittery vision, sweat, nightmares, racing heart, nasuea, irritability, increased anxiety...).
For the past three months my physician has been reducing my dosage slowly. 40-30 for 2 months, 30-20 for 2 months and next with be 20-10 mg.
Dropping from 40 to 30 mg was not a difficult as I initially anticipated. I only experienced a couple of days of increased anxiety, sweats, jittery vision, nightmares, body aches, etc. Within three weeks I felt much better and was ready to move on.
One and a half months ago I dropped from 30-20 mg and unfortunately to symptoms seem to have amped up and continued for a longer period of time. Especially feelings of a racing heart, nightmares, lethargy, increased moments of anxiety, and insomnia.
These most recent experiences have made me consider upping my dose back to 30 mg. to simply ease the withdrawl symptoms. I am hoping that the symptoms will ease and I can continue to reduce my dosage.
Has anyone ever gone through a similar experience? I would love to hear from you if you have.
Well, I have been on Paxil for nearly 10 years consistently and and on and off for about 4 years prior to that. At the time I started taking it, I was in a very difficult place in my life. I started out with 10 mgs and have been on 40 mg for the past several years.
I have felt that I have come to a better place in my life and have wanted to remove myself from relying on medications to solve my problems. Unfortunately, I am well aware of the terrible withdrawl symptoms that are associated with Paxil (Jittery vision, sweat, nightmares, racing heart, nasuea, irritability, increased anxiety...).
For the past three months my physician has been reducing my dosage slowly. 40-30 for 2 months, 30-20 for 2 months and next with be 20-10 mg.
Dropping from 40 to 30 mg was not a difficult as I initially anticipated. I only experienced a couple of days of increased anxiety, sweats, jittery vision, nightmares, body aches, etc. Within three weeks I felt much better and was ready to move on.
One and a half months ago I dropped from 30-20 mg and unfortunately to symptoms seem to have amped up and continued for a longer period of time. Especially feelings of a racing heart, nightmares, lethargy, increased moments of anxiety, and insomnia.
These most recent experiences have made me consider upping my dose back to 30 mg. to simply ease the withdrawl symptoms. I am hoping that the symptoms will ease and I can continue to reduce my dosage.
Has anyone ever gone through a similar experience? I would love to hear from you if you have.
I have felt that I have come to a better place in my life and have wanted to remove myself from relying on medications to solve my problems. Unfortunately, I am well aware of the terrible withdrawl symptoms that are associated with Paxil (Jittery vision, sweat, nightmares, racing heart, nasuea, irritability, increased anxiety...).
For the past three months my physician has been reducing my dosage slowly. 40-30 for 2 months, 30-20 for 2 months and next with be 20-10 mg.
Dropping from 40 to 30 mg was not a difficult as I initially anticipated. I only experienced a couple of days of increased anxiety, sweats, jittery vision, nightmares, body aches, etc. Within three weeks I felt much better and was ready to move on.
One and a half months ago I dropped from 30-20 mg and unfortunately to symptoms seem to have amped up and continued for a longer period of time. Especially feelings of a racing heart, nightmares, lethargy, increased moments of anxiety, and insomnia.
These most recent experiences have made me consider upping my dose back to 30 mg. to simply ease the withdrawl symptoms. I am hoping that the symptoms will ease and I can continue to reduce my dosage.
Has anyone ever gone through a similar experience? I would love to hear from you if you have.
Wow. I've been on Paxil for about 10 months. I became unemployed with no insurance and 2 kids so I decided to stop taking them and started wondering if what I'm feeling is normal. It's been 9 days since my last one and I have been experiencing much of the same as others. The most irritating is the vibrating head thing as well as heart palpitations. I was starting to worry I had a tumor or something. Anyway, I thought it would be over by now, but its not. Glad this site is here because at least I'm not going crazy.
So....I have taken peroxitine (paxil CR) off and on for years. I take it largely for the sexual side effect of delaying my normally quick ejaculation so I can experience sex without embarrassment. Due to this, I've come to the point now where I take 5 or 6 pills at once, so around 150 mg every day. I know this is bad, and I'm killing my liver. However, until I find another way to have sex without embarrasment, I will continue. Can anyone relate and or offer help?
Paxil is a great drug for me personally. But I did experience the full on effects of stopping Paxil when I stupidly let my prescription lapse. It was like nothing I've ever experienced: electric jolts in my legs, extreme and unctontrollable aggression, completely mood dysregulated, profound dissociative symptoms. There is a name for this condition in neurology; which I can't quite recall. It is an identified neurological condition so I'm surprised to read that some MDs are unaware of it. I went from 60mg long-term use to nothing to see if I needed the Paxil. Well, I did. I am back on it and happy with it's efficacy in alleviating depressive symptoms but most certainly would never go cold turkey again. If for some reason I need to stop taking Paxil will have an MD wean me off.
Wow! I've been on Paxil for 16 years. I've tried to get off several times but I cannot tolerate the withdrawels. I'm trying to get off again and started weaning from 40mg to 20mg for a week then down to 10mg for another week then stop completely. I started taking 50mg of Pristiq while doing this. I've been off Paxil for a week now and feel terrible. I feel depressed, scared, my body aches, weird dreams, lightheaded, weak, and many other disabling feelings. Any suggestions?
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